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- the present invention relates to air entrainment nebulizers and more particularly concerns a nebulizer that provides a range of high oxygen content with optimum total output flow rate.
- an oxygen enriched air mixture is provided for introduction into a patient's lungs by means of suitable breathing apparatus.
- the gas mixture is preferably moisturized and transmitted to the patient through a flexible tube which may be several feet or more in length.
- the nebulizer provides a gas stream that entrains water particles rather than water vapor (as in a humidifier). Minimum water particle size is required to ensure that water will reach deeper portions of the respiratory tract.
- a nebulizer is used to provide a gas mixture that may be selectively varied from a high oxygen content, nearly 100% in some cases, to as little as 28%.
- a nebulizer with a wide range of oxygen percentages is described in U.S. Pat. No.
- nebulizer with the auxiliary gas input although effective for its purpose, is not useful where a pressurized auxiliary air source is not available. In some hospitals and similar facilities, only pressurized oxygen outputs are provided so that a nebulizer with the auxiliary gas input as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,767,576 cannot be employed.
- a nebulizer that uses solely a pressurized oxygen input depends upon air entrainment for auxiliary gas or air input as is described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,629,590 for "Nebulizer.”
- pressurized oxygen is fed through a jet that produces a lowered pressure for entrainment of water from a container which is thus drawn into a mixing chamber having a pair of apertures that are adjusted by a rotating sleeve.
- 4,629,590 employs an oxygen jet capable of flowing up to about 15 liters per minute of oxygen and achieves adjustment of oxygen content of the discharged mixture by varying the air entrainment apertures in the mixer body.
- oxygen content above about 60% of the output mixture cannot be obtained with the air entrainment nebulizer of U.S. Pat. No. 4,629,590 without providing an unacceptably low total output flow rate.
- This nebulizer is provided with a limited oxygen flow rate jet and thus is not capable of producing high flow rates of oxygen.
- 4,629,590 can be used wherever there is solely a source of pressurized oxygen and is not dependent upon the availability of pressurized auxiliary gas.
- this nebulizer can provide output mixtures having only limited (not more than about 60%) percentages of oxygen with useful total flow rates.
- the instrument may be subject to back pressure in the order of 3 to 5 cm of water when the patient either is exhaling or is between breaths. Such back pressures tend to cause the water droplets that are swirling around the mixing chamber to be projected outwardly through the air entrainment openings, thereby causing an undesirable "spitting" which degrades operation of the nebulizer.
- an air entrainment nebulizer in carrying out principles of the present invention in accordance with a preferred embodiment, includes a mixing body having a mixing chamber and a pressurized gas input fitting.
- a gas jet is connected to the fitting for projecting a high velocity stream of gas into the chamber and has a orifice sufficient to flow pressurized gas at a rate of well over 15 liters per minute.
- An air entrainment opening or port in the body is made with a maximum open area sufficiently small to flow air into the chamber at a maximum rate not greater than about 40 liters per minute when pressurized gas flows through the jet orifice at about a rate of 40 liters per minute.
- the air entrainment opening is formed of a plurality of apertures, each of which has an area small enough to block projection of water droplets through the opening.
- an adjustment is provided for the size of the air opening having a fine adjustment portion adjacent its closed position.
- An adjustable closure is provided for the opening that progressively blocks and unblocks the opening to decrease the open area of the air opening in a non-linear arrangement so as to effect a rate of change of the open area that decreases as the closure moves toward its closed position. This controls the rate of air flow into the entrainment opening so as to allow for precision adjustment in very small amounts as the closure approaches the closed position.
- FIG. 1 is a pictorial illustration of a nebulizer assembly incorporating principles of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the nebulizer of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the air entrainment opening with its closure sleeve in fully opened position
- FIG. 4 is a section taken on lines 4--4 of FIG. 3;
- FIG. 5 is a vertical section with parts broken away showing the air entrainment opening and closure sleeve in the position of FIGS. 3 and 4;
- FIGS. 6, 7 and 8 respectively correspond to the side elevation view, horizontal section and vertical view with parts broken away, of FIGS. 3, 4 and 5, but showing the closure sleeve and closure member in partly closed position;
- FIG. 9 is a pictorial illustration of the upper portion of the mixer body with the closure sleeve removed.
- the nebulizer to be disclosed herein is similar to that illustrated in FIGS. 5 through 10 of a co-pending application Ser. No. 422,310 entitled “Nebulizer Heater” invented by Blair E. Howe and assigned to the assignee of the present application. The disclosure of this application is incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.
- the nebulizer described herein includes a separate nebulizer mixing head and a separate sterile water container, with the nebulizer head being readily adapted for connection to many different types of water containers.
- the nebulizer head may be made as a unit having its own non-separate sterile water container. As shown in FIGS.
- a separate nebulizer head and mixing means is identified generally by numeral 20 and is combined with a separate and independent sterile water container 22 to which it may be detachably secured by a threaded fitting generally indicated by a fitting that is connected to a neck 24 of the mixing head.
- the nebulizer mixer head comprises a mixer body or housing 30 having an input fitting 32 to which may be connected a hose (not shown, and which itself is connected with a source of pressurized oxygen, not shown).
- Mixer body 30 includes an internal nozzle fitting 36 having a high velocity jet orifice introducing a high velocity stream of pressurized oxygen from fitting 32 to the interior 38 of the mixer body.
- Interior 38 forms a mixing chamber in which air, oxygen and water are mixed.
- a suction tube 40 extends downwardly through all the components, downwardly through the mixing head and into the container 22.
- the lower end of the suction tube is submerged in a body of liquid (generally sterile water) confined in container 22.
- a novel air entrainment opening or port 42 is formed in mixer body 30 for introducing ambient air into the interior of the mixer body to be mixed with oxygen and water.
- Mixer body 30 includes a downwardly tapered aerosol mixing chamber housing section 44 (FIG. 2) in communication with the interior 38 of body 30, and an output fitting 46 (FIG. 1) for discharging mixed aerosol from the aerosol mixing chamber section 44.
- the lower end of chamber 44 is formed with an internally threaded connecting nipple 48 and at its lower end, has a relatively large diameter passage 50 allowing water droplets precipitated from aerosol within the mixing chamber 44 to flow or fall downwardly from the chamber.
- a venturi tube 52 is mounted to the interior of body 30 to increase flow velocity of aerosol into the mixing chamber 44. The venturi tube also provides improved precipitation droplet collection.
- the venturi tube is fixedly positioned within the mixer body below the jet orifice of nozzle fitting 36 and has a lowermost portion 54 of its shank cut-away to form a large lateral opening.
- One side of the venturi tube shank fixedly supports an inclined bottom plate 56, inclining downwardly toward one of the walls (toward the right as viewed in FIG. 2) of mixing chamber 44.
- the lowermost free edge 58 of plate 56 has a downwardly projecting wedge shaped and pointed drip member 60 fixed thereto.
- the plate also has an aperture 64 that snugly receives suction tube 40.
- the venturi tube 52 acts to increase velocity of the gas jet projected from nozzle fitting 36 and also, by means of its bottom plate 56, collects falling water droplets. These collected droplets move to the free edge of the plate and then along the drip wedge 60. Droplets fall from the point at the lower end of drip wedge 60.
- Droplets in the aerosol tend to collect on various surfaces including surfaces of the suction tube above the bottom plate 56.
- the snug fit of the bottom plate hole around the exterior of the suction tube blocks further downward flow of collected droplets on the exterior of the suction tube and diverts these droplets along the bottom plate to the drip wedge and then back into the container.
- a channel shaped baffle or air deflector 72 Fixed to and depending from the interior surface of upper end 70 of the mixer body is a channel shaped baffle or air deflector 72, substantially similar to that described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,767,576.
- the deflector receives and redirects incoming air that is pulled into the jet mixing chamber 38 through the air entrainment opening port 42.
- the arrangement provides a greatly increased turbulence of swirling air, oxygen and water within the chamber 38 which is increased at least in part by impingement of the downwardly projected oxygen jet upon the venturi tube entrance surface 76.
- the arrangement provides a buildup around the interior tubular wall of mixer body 30 of a wall of turbulent "standing" water, generally indicated at 80, which completely fills the mixing chamber above the upper end of the venturi tube 52. The arrangement thus can collect and hold larger water droplets within the turbulent mixture.
- a circular sleeve 82 having a serrated upper circumferential edge 84 to facilitate manual rotation, is mounted for circumferential sliding rotation on the upper end of mixer body 30 and includes a closure port 83.
- a closure shield portion 85 is provided adjacent closure port 83 to adjustably overlie the opening 42 in the mixer body.
- Opening 42 is framed by a rectangular perimetral ridge 86 that projects outwardly of the outer surface of the mixer body by a very small distance of about 0.015 inches. The ridge helps to hold the closure sleeve and its closure shield 82 spaced slightly away from the outer surface of the mixer body.
- the air entrainment opening 42 in the mixer body is formed of a group of three mutually parallel but mutually longitudinally staggered narrow slots 90, 92, and 94 (FIGS. 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9) that extend circumferentially around the body of the mixer within the area framed by ridge 86.
- Each slot in the presently preferred embodiment has a length of about 0.33 inches and has a width at its radially inner end of about 0.025 inches whereby the open area of each slot is 0.00925 square inches to provide a total open area for all three slots of about 0.025 square inches.
- the rotatable sleeve or dial 82 is adjusted until the desired percentage of oxygen in the output mixer is indicated by the point of an indicator bar 120 fixed on housing 30.
- a flow rate of oxygen to input fitting 32 is then selected by adjustment of a metering valve (not shown) to cause a flow of oxygen into the jet fitting 36 at a rate of about 30 to 40 liters per minute.
- the jet stream of oxygen projected from the nozzle produces a decreased pressure adjacent a water aspirating fitting 37 connected to the upper end of aspirating tube 40 so that the decreased pressure at the nozzle output orifice sucks water from container 22 up into the chamber 38.
- the lowered pressure within the chamber 38 sucks air in through the air entrainment opening 42.
- Incoming air flows into and against deflector 72 to be directed downwardly toward entrance surface 76 of the venturi tube 52.
- the venturi tube directs the mixture of air, water and oxygen downwardly through its throat to the mixing chamber 44 to impinge upon plate 56 and to be redirected in a swirling motion around the chamber 44.
- This operation is essentially the same as that described in the patents and patent application identified above, except for the fact that (a) the flow rate of input oxygen is much greater, and (b) the flow rate of input air through the uniquely configured and restricted opening 42 is much smaller and more precisely adjustable.
- a desired percentage of oxygen in the output mixture from output fitting 46 is obtained by rotating adjustment of the closure sleeve 82. This adjustment changes the size of the total open area of the opening 42 to change the percentage of oxygen in the output mixture. Even though a very high oxygen percentage may be obtained, the total flow rate of the output mixture remains at an optimum value, as will be more particularly explained in connection with Table I below.
- the several slots 90, 92, 94 are staggered by a very small amount, which may be in the order of about 0.030 inches, for example, so that each slot is offset longitudinally of an adjacent slot by this amount.
- the mixer body is preferably formed by standard injection molding techniques and therefore the several slots are tapered from outside to inside, as viewed in the cross sections of FIGS. 5 and 8.
- the tapered slots have slightly larger outer dimensions and portions between the slots are rounded for ease of molding operation.
- a closure shield 85 of the slidable sleeve 83 has a free edge 98 that forms one side of a primary opening 83 in the sleeve.
- This opening 83 is nearly co-extensive with, but is slightly smaller than the area circumscribed by the ridge 86.
- Opening 83 of the sleeve is formed with a tapered triangular fine adjustment portion 102 that extends circumferentially from the edge 98 to a point 110 so that the described opening of the slidable shield has a wedge shaped extended portion that tapers to a smaller area as it is further away from the major portion of the opening.
- FIG. 3 shows the closure member in full open position (where the closure member contacts a minimum portion of ridge 86), whereas FIG. 6 shows the closure member in an intermediate position.
- the slidably rotatable closure shield can move from the fully open position illustrated in FIG. 3 to a fully closed position (not shown) in which the small end 110 of the wedge shaped open area 102 is positioned at or beyond (to the right as viewed in FIG. 6) of the ridge element 112. In the intermediate position that is shown in FIG.
- the closure shield 84 has nearly fully closed the lowermost slot 94 as the closure member moves toward the right as viewed in FIG. 6. Further motion of the closure sleeve to the right from the position in FIG. 6 will decrease the open area of only the upper 2 slots, namely slots 90 and 92 after slot 94 has been completely closed. So too, in a similar manner, when the edge 98 of the closure shield 84 reaches the right hand end of slot 92, both of the lower slots 92 and 94 have been completely closed so that further motion toward fully closed position will further close only portions of the single slot 90.
- the closure member has its leading edge 98 substantially adjacent to or at the far end 116 of lowermost slot 94, the closure has reached a fine adjustment position in which the decrease of the open area becomes nonlinear so that the rate of decrease of the open area with respect to the rate of motion of the sliding sleeve is less than it is at other (more open) positions of the closure member.
- the non-linearity of the rate of decrease of open area is due in part to the fact that only two of the three slots are open and, further, to the decreasing open area of the wedge shaped section 102.
- Indicator bar 120 is formed in and projects slightly outwardly from the surface of mixer body 38 and has a pointed end 122 that cooperates with a cut-away portion 124 on one side of the sleeve to limit the sleeve to its fully open position and which cooperates with a second cut-away portion 126 to limit rotation of the sleeve to its maximum or fully closed position.
- a suitable scale with numbers (not shown) is formed or printed on the exterior surface of the slidable sleeve and includes indicating lines 130, 131, 132 and 133 which cooperate with the point of marking bar 120 to represent positions in which the oxygen content of the output mixer is respectively 85%, 75%, 65% and 60% in a particular embodiment of the invention that has been constructed and tested.
- the size and configuration of the air entrainment opening and its closure arrangement as illustrated and disclosed herein enable the use of a high flow rate of input pressurized oxygen with the precise control of input flow rate of entrained air so as to enable the instrument to provide an output flow mixture of very high oxygen content at a reasonable total output flow rate.
- the air entrainment opening 42 (its maximum open area), the latter is subdivided into several openings, each of a dimension small enough to prevent "spitting" or the projection of water droplets from the mixing chamber outwardly through the opening when the instrument experiences back pressure in its discharge hose of as much as 4 or 5 cm of water.
- Dial O 2 % represents the percentage of oxygen that is set by the dial, that is, by rotation of the sleeve 82 to cause the point of the indicator bar 120 to align with an appropriate number (oxygen percentage) printed on the sleeve as represented by indicia 130 through 133.
- the second column of the table, Actual O 2 % indicates the actual percentage of oxygen measured in the output discharge mixture.
- the third column, O 2 Flow represents the flow rate in liters per minute of oxygen fed to the jet fitting 36 via an input metering valve (not shown).
- the fourth column, Entrained Airflow represents the total amount of air (measured) that is pulled into the mixing chamber 38 through the controlled air entrainment opening, in liters per minute.
- Total Output Flow represents the total flow rate in liters per minute of the mixture discharged from the instrument.
- the desired goal of an instrument of this type is to provide a total output flow in the order of about 40 to 50 liters per minute at a relatively high (60% and above) oxygen percentage.
- No prior instrument has been able to achieve such a goal without a controlled pressurized air injection combined with controlled oxygen injection. It can be seen from Table 1, for example, that with an oxygen flow rate (column 3) of 30 liters per minute and a dial position (column 1) of 60%, actual oxygen percentage is 62.3% (column 2) with entrained air flow of 27.32 liters per minute (column 4) to provide a total output flow of 57.32 liters per minute (column 5) (which is the sum of the total oxygen flow rate and the total entrained air flow rate.
- the 60% O 2 dial position is the full open position shown in FIG. 4.
- actual oxygen at 30 liters per minute
- actual oxygen percent was measured at 63.7% to provide a total output flow rate of 55.44 liters per minute with 25.44 liters per minute of entrained air flow.
- total output flow rate is 45.2 liters per minute with an oxygen flow rate of 30 liters per minute to provide an oxygen content of 73.4% in the output while the system pulled in air at a rate of only 15.2 liters per minute.
- the total output flow rate can be dropped to 50.06 liters per minute, which is close to a desirable range, by decreasing the oxygen flow rate in this 60% dial position to 25 liters per minute. Further, by moving the dial from 85 % O 2 to 98% O 2 :, the air input is changed by only a very small amount, from 10.79 liters per minute to 1.31 liters per minute. This very small change of air input is necessary to obtain adjustability at high O 2 percentages.
- the air entrainment port of the nebulizer described herein is easily adjustable in small relatively precise and repeatable amounts at relatively low entrained air flow rates. Stated differently, relatively large (and therefore easily controlled) movement of the dial results in relatively small changes in the air entrainment opening. Further, as the dial gets closer to the higher O 2 percentage positions, the rate of change of the air opening decreases to yield an increasing precision of air flow adjustment. This permits precise control of high O 2 percent content of the output mixtures while maintaining optimum total output flow rates.
- the small size air entrainment opening is itself divided into a plurality of smaller openings so as to prevent or substantially eliminate projection of droplets from the mixing chamber.
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TABLE 1 ______________________________________ 5 4 Total 1 2 3 Entrained Output Dial O.sub.2 % Actual O.sub.2 % O.sub.2 Flow Airflow Flow ______________________________________ 60 64.2 40 33.07 73.07 60 62.3 30 27.32 57.32 60 60.4 25 25.06 50.06 60 59.3 20 21.20 41.20 65 63.7 30 25.44 55.44 65 66 40 30.16 70.16 75 73.4 30 15.2 45.2 75 75.3 40 18.16 58.16 85 84.3 30 7.43 37.43 85 83.2 40 10.79 50.79 98 97.5 40 1.31 41.31 ______________________________________
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